| Record Number |
734223 |
| ISBN |
9780140449594 (paperback) |
| Author |
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 author. |
| Title |
The Cossacks and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; translated with notes by David McDuff and Paul Foote ; with an introduction by Paul Foote. |
| Edition |
New edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Penguin, 2006. |
| ©2006 |
| Pagination etc. |
xxx, 483 pages : maps ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
| Summary Note |
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader torn apart by a conflict of loyalties. Written at the end of the nineteenth century, it is amongst the last and greatest of Tolstoy's shorter works. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Russian. |
| Subject - Name |
Tolstoy, Leo, -- graf,1828-1910 -- Translations into English |
| Subject |
Russia -- History -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
McDuff, David, 1945- translator |
| Foote, I. P. (Irwin Paul) translator. |
| Added title |
Sevastopol stories. |
| Hadji Murat. |
| Shelf Location |
F TOLS |
